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Another classic weekend to brighten your winter

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The Maine Humanities Council presents

WINTER WEEKEND 2014: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevskyconservation area January 2011

Looking to brush up on your Russian literature? Join the Maine Humanities Council to enter Dostoevsky’s dark world of moral conflict during the 2014 Winter Weekend, March 7-8 at Bowdoin College.

Winter Weekend offers an engaging humanities experience by uniting historians, writers, artists, public intellectuals, and others to help us understand each year’s book in its rich historical and cultural context.

Registration includes a copy of the novel, a dinner inspired by the novel, and lectures by noted scholars. Friday features dinner and a keynote address, Saturday includes various lectures and lunch. Sign up soon; this event often has a waiting list!

For more information and to register, please visit the Maine Humanities Council website:   http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2014.html

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Winter Weekend 2013: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Something to look forward to this winter…

On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth, the Maine Humanities Council is delighted to announce our first Dickens novel for Winter Weekend. Great Expectations, one of Dickens’s mature novels, is replete with his trademark colorful characters and biting criticism of society. This bildungsroman is a powerful and dramatic story from Dickens at his prime.

Winter Weekend is a humanities experience that, though lectures and discussions, unites historians, writers, artists, public intellectuals, and others to help us understand each year’s book in its rich historical and cultural context.

Winter Weekend 2013 will take place March 8 and 9 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. The $225 registration fee includes a copy of the book, background readings, a reception, dinner, lunch, and coffee. CEUs are available for teachers. Limited scholarships are available for college and high school students. The program starts at 5 p.m. on Friday and continues until mid-afternoon on Saturday.

To register, visit http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2013.html